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I have a Synology NAS D213+.
When I want to connect the NAS to my Mac, Finder mounts a new volume which behaves like a normal partition.
But it interacts so slowly – I click on a folder, and it takes a huge number of seconds till it's open. Explorer on Windows is much faster when it comes to network interaction.
What can I do? Change the protocol? It must be AFP, so do I have to change the protocol elsewhere in the kernel?
add the nas hostname and IP to the MAC "hosts" file, that's how fixed it today.
to edit the host file on a MAC, best way is through terminal, google it.
Good luck
You can use this: http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/NetworkBeacon.html to create a sidebar icon on your Mac that links up to some address and port elsewhere. Keep in mind it will show up regardless of whether it connects successfully or not, so don't take the appearance of your device in the sidebar to mean it's actually available.
A quick sample configuration: I have a VPN I can use to tunnel back into my home network. Once I'm connected I can start Network Beacon with the following settings, to get my server to show up in my sidebar and for me to get access to the files:
Where the service name is just how it shows up in the sidebar, the service type is "AFP over TCP" - there's a bunch of other services you can choose from, the port number is relatively obvious, and important if you're using port forwarding instead of something like VPN, and then the host proxy information is the hostname and IP address of the device you're connecting to.
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My advice would be to use NFS. You should also try to manually mount the partition from the terminal, so you can add some options too, like
This made my browsing much faster, even over wifi.
Cheers